HIGH FIVES: Youngsters take to the court in the Netball Championships.

Tourney fever

PRIMARY schoolchildren from across the borough have enjoyed a month of action-packed sporting fun in netball, basketball and football tournaments.
Scores of youngsters got caught up in the action in the High Five’s Netball Championships, which were held at the Sobell Leisure Centre in Holloway.
Among the teams battling it out for top honours were Hampstead schools New End and St Paul’s, along with St Mary Magdalene Primary School in Holloway.
But the big winners were Gospel Oak Primary School who netted double glory after winning both the A and B League finals.
In a series of competitive competitions organised by the Camden Schools Sports Association (CSSA), energetic boys and girls also came down with football fever in the Camden Six-A-Side Football Championships.
In the North League unbeaten St Dominic’s Primary School from Gospel Oak won the boys league after topping the table with 10 wins and two draws from their 12 games. In the girls’ division, high scoring New End were crowned champions after netting an incredible 62 goals in just 12 games.
Meanwhile in the South League, Somers Town based school Edith Neville remained unbeaten as they finished eight points clear of their nearest rivals to take the title. The team to beat, however, was St Paul’s girls after they clinched a maximum 36 points with 12 wins out of 12 to win their league.
In the final major competition of the month, slam dunking dynamos made their way to the Talacre Sports Centre in Kentish Town for the CSSA Basketball Championships. After a series of testing heats the boys’ team from Primrose Hill Primary School and Gospel Oak girls proved too hot to handle as they took top honours.